. . . from Tom and Jerry to Annie, orphans seem to be ubiquitous in American animation. With Mike Maltese delegated by Warner Brothers to bring his renown predictive skills to Columbia Pictures, it's a safe bet to assume that there's much more here in THIS IS MY DUCKY DAY than meets the eye at first glance. Take the hunter wounding Loopy multiple times, which previews an actual egg blasting the ill-fated wolf with a shotgun in Mike's follow-up tribulation for lupine Loopy, FEE FIE FOES. Taken together, this pair of portent-laden prophecies forecasts an American Homeland awash with firearms, and the unborn making the worse of it with their ill-gotten "rights."
